Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-08-01

Studying history yet but not the history
of a few centuries OF our planet only, but
the history of the eternities-@hole mil
lenniums before Xenophon, or HerOdotus,
or Moses, or Adam was born. History OF
one world, history of all worlds.
What are our departed astronomers do
ing? Studying astronomy yet, but not
through the dull lens of earthly ObSerya.
tory, but with one stroke of wing going
right out to Jupiter and Mars aud Mer-
curry and Saturn and Orion and the
Pleiades s-Oyertakinga and passing the swift
est comet in their flight Herschel died a
Christian. Have you any doubt about
what Herschel is doing Isaac Newton
died Christian. Have you any doubt
about what Isaac Newton is doing? Joseph
Henry died Christian Have you any
doubt about what Joseph Henry is doing?
They were iu discussion, all these astrOn-
omers of earth, about what the aurora
bOrealis was, and none OF them could
GUESS they know now; they have been
out there TO see for themselves
What are our departed Christian Chem
lists doing? Following out their own sci
NINNs lbllOMlllE OuN slilh lNllbNll uhl lNl
ever. Since they died they have solved
ten thousand questions which once puzzled
the earthly laboratory. They stand on
the other side of the thin wall of electric
ity, the wall that seems to divide the phys
iCal from the spiritual world, the thin wall
of electricity. - thin the wall that ever
aud anon it seems to be broken through
broken through from our side by telephone
aud telegraphic apparatus, broken through
FROM the other side by strange influences
which men in their Ignorance call spirit
ualistic manifestations. All that matter
cleared up. AglEsiZ standing amid his
student explorers down in Brazil coming
across some great novelty in the rocks,
taking oil his hat and saying: Gentle
men, let us pray; We must have divine IL
Elimination;
WE WANT WISDOM FROM THE CREATOR
To study these rocks; He made them; let
us pray '--AgassIz going right on with his
Studies forever and forever.
But what are the men of the law, who
in tins world found their chief Joy IN the
legal profession what are they doing now
Studying law in universe where every
thug is controlled by law from light of
hummng bird to flight of wOrld-law, not
dry aud hard and drudgiug, but righteous
and magnificent law, before which man.
and chcruh, and seraph, and archangel,
aud tod himself bow. The chain of law
long enough tO wind around the immensi-
ties OF iufuity and eternity. Chain
of law What place tostudy law, where
all the links of the chain are III the hand
What are our departed Christian friends
who in this world mad their Joy IN the
healing art doing now: Busy at their old
business. No sickness in heaven, but
plenty of sickness on earth, plenty Of
wounds in the different parts OF Gods do
minion to he healed and tn he mediCIted
YOu cannot understand why that patient
got well after all the skiltul doctors of
New York and Brooklyn said he must die
Perhaps Abercromhie touched him m-Abcr-
crOmhlr, who, after many years dOctorlng
the bodies aud the souls of people in Scot
land, went up TO God in l~ii. Perhaps
AberrrOmbie touched him.
should not wonder if my old friend
Or. John Brown, who died in Edinburgh
John Brown, the author of "Rlb and
Ills Fricnds'-John Brown, who waI ~
humble "A Christian as he was Skilliul a
physician and world-renOwncd author
should not wonder if he had been back
again and again to see some of his old pa
tirnts. Those who had their JOY in heal
ing the sickness and the woes of earth,
gone up to Heaven, are come forth again
tnI bruIpulnt mruiTlmeut
But what are our friends who found
their chief joy in conversation and Sociallty
doing now? In brighter conversation there
and in grndcr socllity.
What place tovisit in, where your next
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